Wells County, ND Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Wells County, ND?
Wells County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.5 ft per decade over 56 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Wells County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 10.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1965-10-13 to 2021-07-15, 223 measurements from USGS well USGS-472329099194401 (145-068-10bcc), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Wells County compares nationally
Wells County sits at rank 373rd of 1,449 ranked counties, ordered rising-to-declining, so a low number means a rising water table and a high one means fast decline. Wells County, North Dakota is home to about 3,803 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Wells County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Wells County can be stable in depth and still worth testing for quality, or declining and still test clean, the two are measured separately, and only a direct test settles the second one.